Button



UNITED STATES NEL-SON C. NEVELL, OF SPRINGFIELD,

MASSACHUSETTS.

i BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

Application tiled December 6, 18S-2.

279,002', dated June 5, 1883.

(No model.)

T all who'nt. it may concern.'

Be it known that I, NELSON C. NEWELL, a citizen of the United States,residing atv Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and uset'ul Improvements in Buttons, ofwhich the following is a specification.

- body and a flange,

This invention relates to an improved construction of a compound button,consisting of a cloth-face button having the usual shank of textilematerial, a back and rim of vegetable ivory, plastic material, or othersimilar substance, and devices for uniting said cloth-face button andback and rim, the object being to provide such aconstruction of thelatter and of said uniting devices as, when combined with said buttonand shank, will prevent said back and rim from being broken when theparts of said compound but-ton are secured to each other in process ofmanufacture, and by reason o f shrinkage thereof' subsequent to thecompletion of said button.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement upon niy `Patent No.206,348, .of July 23, 1878, to which reference maybe had.

In the drawings forming part of this speciv fication, Figure 2 is `aview in transverse section ,of a compound button constructed accordingto my invention. Fio. 1 is arear plan view. Fig. 3 is a view, partly insection, showing the parts before Fig. 4 is a face view. Fig. 5 is aview of the uniting-eyelet, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of' the washer.

In the drawings, my is the cloth-faced button. h is the back and rim. ois the unitingeyelet. o is the washer. l

The cloth-face button m is of the ordinary construction, having a shank,c, of textile material, whereby the butt'on'is sewed to a garment,excepting that an eyelet, is secured to theback collet thereof by havingits flange clamped under the latter, and said shank c projects throughthe latter, as in Figs. 2 and 3. -Said eyelet is, as shown in Fio. 5, ofthe ordinary description, having a cylindrical The washer o is a fla-tring, as shown in Fig, 6, and is of a diameter exceeding that of theopening through the back and rim h, and of a flange which is turnedbeing locked together.

down upon it, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, which flange is formed byforcing one end of said eyelet outward and downward in the usual way. Yy

The back and rim 71y `is constructed from either vegetable or animalivory, plastic ma` terial, or other similar substance, and is finishedin suitable colors, and is adapted to receive within its shell -likeform said cloth-face button m. Said part h is perforated, as shown, toallow the aforesaid eyelet and the shank c within the latter to projectthrough it, as in Fig. 3.

The aforesaid materia-ls, as well as others of a similar nature fromwhich said parts h are` made, are subject to more or less shrinkageafter being finished ready to be attached to the button mv, andsubsequent thereto, and when they are combined with the parts shown insaid patent, and constructed as therein described, and are permitted toshrink upon a rigid, or nearly so, central fastening, they frequentlybreak, vruining the button, and to obvi'ate breakage from said cause theperforation in said back and rim is made larger, or of greater diameterthan that of the body of the eyelet c, which passes through it, so'thatany shrinkage movement of that part of the back h surrounding saideyelet shall not be niet by any obstruction which can cause saidbreakage. Furthermore, if said perforation in said back h be no largerthan the eyelet c, the final flanging or heading down of the latter inmaking the compound button often causes the back to break, since the actof flanging the end of the eyelet tends to force that part of the bodythereof adj oining said flange outward against the borders of theeyelet-hole in said back; but enlarging said hole obviates said dangerof breakage from this cause.

The washer o, in uniting the aforesaid parts, as in Fig. 3, is placedoverthe end of the eye let t and upon the back h, and said eyelet isthen flanged or set over onto said washer, as in Fig. 2, whereby thesaid button m and said back are securely fastened together, but in vsucha way as to provide for a certain amount of shrinkage movement, as abovedescribed, for said back. By the interposition of said washer betweenthe flange of the eyelet and Said back there is less friotionalresistance to the shrinkage movement of the latter than when the eyeletis anged direetlyagainst the eyelet, and the Washer o, combined andseback.

cured together substantially as set forth. 5 That I claim as niyinvention is- NELSON C. NEVELL.

The Within-described compound button, eonl `VitneSSes: sisting of thebutton m, provided with the F. H. DUMBLETON,

m, the back and rim zfllaving a perforation greater than the diameter ofthe' body of said 1Q shank c, the eyelet o, secured to said button H. A.CHAPIN.

